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April 29, 2014

Inching Toward Inbox Zero

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Six Filters To Make Your Inbox Manageable

On Saturday, I mentioned that I’m buckling down and setting some new goals for myself – the DietBet that I talked about is one of my two personal goals that are part of my work team’s latest round of 6×6. (I didn’t write a recap post of the last round, but it went pretty well – I’d say I hit 90% success on three of the four goals, and 100% on #4.) This time around, DietBet is one of my personal goals for the six weeks, and I’m excited to start that challenge next Wednesday. So far no one has joined …

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April 10, 2014

It’s Princess Night!

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Instead of flying home to Denver tonight, I’m sticking around Dallas. However, as this week progressed, I realized that I didn’t yet have any plans for tonight. Rather than trying to find another poor planner who wasn’t booked in advance, I decided it was high time that tonight I do something that I always try to do but never actually end up doing. It’s Princess Night! When was the last time you took a night to do whatever you wanted, without feeling guilty about doing so? (That last part is key… I’m certainly not trying to say I never have fun, but …

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January 16, 2014

App I Love: Rapportive

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I think pretty much everyone has to send emails to people they don’t know on occasion. And it’s never fun when you make the assumption that “Leslie Smith” is a female… and he turns out to be a male. Oops. But I recently learned about a new add-on for Gmail that helps with that problem – and provides a lot of other benefits as well. Ramit Sethi did a short newsletter this week on Rapportive, and I initially figured I’d download it and likely get rid of it when it didn’t turn out to be that great (after all, who …

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January 6, 2014

App I Love: Full Text RSS Feed

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Over my Christmas vacation, I intended to get caught up on my blog reading… but that unfortunately didn’t totally happen. Oops! However, I recently discovered an app that has greatly improved my blog reading experience, and wanted to share it with all of you. Have you ever added a blog to your RSS reader and been irritated to discover that the blogger has set up their feed to only show “excerpts?” That is, your reader shows a few sentences or maybe even a few paragraphs, but then you get the dreaded “click here to continue reading?” That pisses me off …

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November 19, 2013

Stressed? Write it Down

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Stressed? Write Down Your Problems

“When you’re lost and alone, and you’re sinking like a stone… carry on.” While Monday was a day when it seemed like I just kept getting lucky with things going right, today was one of those terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days where I got so stressed out that I wanted to go cry in the office bathroom. Evidently I wasn’t the only one… Finally, though, the day is over – so while I still have some work to do, I can at least do it from the comfort of my hotel room. (Which means it’s now my party …

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